Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"The customs of the world are so many conventional follies."
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Conventional
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Robert M. Gates
Politician
"One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom."
Erich Fromm
Psychologist, Philosopher
"Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought."
Madonna Ciccone
Singer
"I refuse to live a conventional life."
George Harrison
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life."
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"I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings."
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"No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love."
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"I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy."
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"Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will."
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"I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional."
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"Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously."
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"I have some problems with conventional organized religion."
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"The most conventional statements are both true and welcome."
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"I lead a very conventional life."
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